jake_and_fatman

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by jake_and_fatman 23d ago
To get back to the essay's point, car know-how has traditionally been a blue-collar preserve. YouTube and a bespoke forum for each make and model changed all that. Fixing and maintaining a beater is a source of pride, particularly fo
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by jake_and_fatman 26d ago
For practical questions, I always prefer Claude's answer to a human's. Non-narcissistic and to the point. For entertainment, I'm less impatient, although unsurprisingly, most people view reading as homework and are happier
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by jake_and_fatman 26d ago
Yes! Reading all samples really drives home the study's conclusion that “people generally prefer predictability, because difficult material requires more brain power.” I could blow through the AI generated versions as I do Brandon Sa
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by jake_and_fatman 1mo ago
I'm not going to argue. If enough people think I'm mistaken and want to go the portable dumper way, I will resign right here and now. It is very easy to convince me to step down, because I hesitated to take this job to begin wi
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by jake_and_fatman 1mo ago
As the Techlead says, only if you're time is worthless.
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by jake_and_fatman 1mo ago
We should be so lucky. No, sadly, bruv has repeatedly enticed handing over the keys over a silly dustup like the portable dumper, the long line mishandling, or the c-ts-mode incident where he could not bring himself to admit wrongdoing, th
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by jake_and_fatman 1mo ago
Reading is going to Whole Foods. Writing is living off the land.
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by jake_and_fatman 2mo ago
"Bob can be blunt but at least he's honest." Words can have positive or negative connotations for the same notion.
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by jake_and_fatman 2mo ago
Count the number of apps you pay for. Now google how many programmers are out there. Divide. These are your chances for success.
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by jake_and_fatman 2mo ago
Growing up, I hated this guy. Boring! Now, I can recognize writing talent.
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by jake_and_fatman 2mo ago
We didn't need the hbs case study. There's rarely any general explanation for business success. You can make outsized money off the least scarce stuff, say coffee in the case of Starbucks or more recently $1 snow cones like Mixu
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by jake_and_fatman 2mo ago
How do you process people deal with yourselves? "Get teams to traction"? The sentences are so long, vague, and hyperbolic as to be meaningless. And yet, people in your caste respond to this drivel with such feigned understandin
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by jake_and_fatman 2mo ago
Brus, a good fraction, possibly the majority, of SWEs like it precisely for its obsessive focus on minute distinctions. Talking to customers is often a punishment. We don't want to be useful so much as right.
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by jake_and_fatman 2mo ago
30:08 "This means engineers can talk to users... stuff that's actually fun". Wow, he totally gets us. /s 31:09 He flubs the questioning. His first says "Raise your hand if 100% of your code uses agents." The
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by jake_and_fatman 2mo ago
Have you considered getting laid? Don't knock it til you try it.
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by jake_and_fatman 2mo ago
In other news, natural selection still applies, even to smart primates in 2026.
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by jake_and_fatman 2mo ago
I'm butt hurt that I'm five paragraphs in and still have no idea what the hypothesis is.
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by jake_and_fatman 2mo ago
Let go, Luke. And the underoos too.
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by jake_and_fatman 3mo ago
Useless without local/remote sync. Also kind of obvious is the preferability of composeable UNIX programs over heavily locked down monoliths, hardly calling for a Fred Brooks style exegesis.
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by jake_and_fatman 3mo ago
All the time. Sometimes it does an absolutely bang-up job.
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by jake_and_fatman 3mo ago
Absolute fire. Love how Deepseek tortoise shell can only be slowed, not killed.
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by jake_and_fatman 3mo ago
I see what you did there. "Of course that's your contention. You just got finished readin' some Marxian historian -- Pete Garrison probably. You're gonna be convinced of that 'til next month when you get to James Le